netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf 1/6] netkit: Add tstats per-CPU traffic counters

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Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2023 00:42:51 +0100
From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: martin.lau@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
 Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf 1/6] netkit: Add tstats per-CPU traffic counters

On 11/6/23 10:28 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Fri,  3 Nov 2023 23:27:43 +0100 Daniel Borkmann wrote:
>> Add dev->tstats traffic accounting to netkit. The latter contains per-CPU
>> RX and TX counters.
>>
>> The dev's TX counters are bumped upon pass/unspec as well as redirect
>> verdicts, in other words, on everything except for drops.
>>
>> The dev's RX counters are bumped upon successful __netif_rx(), as well
>> as from skb_do_redirect() (not part of this commit here).
>>
>> Using dev->lstats with having just a single packets/bytes counter and
>> inferring one another's RX counters from the peer dev's lstats is not
>> possible given skb_do_redirect() can also bump the device's stats.
> 
> sorry for the delay in replying, I'll comment here instead of on:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/6d5cb0ef-fabc-7ca3-94b2-5b1925a6805f@iogearbox.net/
> 
> What I had in mind was to have the driver just set the type of stats.
> That way it doesn't have to bother with error handling either
> (allocation failure checking, making sure free happens in the right
> spot etc. all happen in the core). Here's a completely untested diff:

Ah perfect, thanks! I'll take a look and integrate this into a v2 this
week if that's okay with you. And add sth to bail out if the ndo is in
place and NETDEV_PCPU_STAT_TSTAT not selected for the time being.

Thanks,
Daniel